Carnival...

The United Colours of Larmer Tree!

Around the world tickets are available from Friday to Sunday for this once in a lifetime trip!  Visit the Carnival Tents and get busy, there's so much to make and do!  Get cutting, pasting and sticking to produce costumes, banners, musical instruments and a main figurehead for your group, with adult, youth and two children's workshops celebrating the many colours and cultures reflected in the music at the Larmer Tree. 

On Sunday at 3:45pm join more than 500 participants from the four groups in an explosion of culture, colour, sound and movement to parade around the festival. Bon voyage!

The colourful carnival groups for 2012 are...

Creative Nations
with Penny and Lesley (childrens’ group)

Travel with us to create a smorgasbord of all that's exciting about Europe...the best of British, the fantastique French, the delicious Danish, and on and on! We're rolling out the creative barrel of all things red white, blue and diamond to celebrate the pomp and ceremony of these amazing nations with a coronation crown to lead us through the parade on Sunday. Come along and celebrate .....

Funky African Vibe
with Sonia Hutchison (YouthZone)

The YouthZone are getting down to the funky beats of the African Continent. Transform yourself in the sessions and deliver Africa straight up to the people of Larmer Tree. Create your own drum and make this our loudest year yet! Bring your green, yellow and red clothes for full impact and celebrate the vibrant united colours of Africa. Top off this African explosion by expressing yourself and making an African mask straight out of your imagination....who will YOU be in this year's carnival?

Oceanic Dreamers
with Vicky and Tim (childrens’ group)

Make a splash at this year's carnival! Hold your breath, dive into the deep blue waters around the Larmer Tree Islands and explore Oceania. Come and create a huge aboriginal Sea Turtle to swim with us around the Festival! Celebrate the culture of Tonga by designing your own sun-kissed sarong. Dream up a colourful head dress and a flowery Lei from Samoa and make yourself a Lali Drum from Fiji to beat a rhythm in the procession. Join our tropical team and come to the carnival tent to create the most colourful costume you can imagine! 

Sunday’s Sun Day!
with Jan and Alex (adults’ group)

Guarantee the sunshine by creating it! Travel with us to South America as their winter solstice passes and celebrations for the sun and the start of summer begin. Welcome the coming of this glorious season with gorgeous golden headdresses and scintillating sinuous structures based on the fascinating Nazca lines carved in the desert plains of Peru. Help to Create Inti, the Inca Sun God himself, who’ll lead our sensational sun worshippers in a stunning Sunday spectacular. Join the Carnival and spread sunshine and happiness throughout the festival.

(All children’s groups aged 6-10 are accompanied by an adult)

For more children’s, teenager, family-friendly activities and stuff just for adults (for that all important ‘me’ time!) please see our other What Else pages.

For a full timetable of events, don’t forget to buy your programme. They can be bought from Info at the festival.